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I just read today that Obama is quietly making plans to close Guantanamo Bay. As it turns out, you DON'T have to hold people indefinitely with no plans to put them through trial, releasing the innocent or punishing the guilty. It turns out that they can be given a fair trial and get on with their lives, withouth being institutionalized forever.
Oh Obama, is there no aggregious wrong from the last eight years that you can't easily identify and then firmly reverse or correct in less than a week?
It's like you read my "Things That Are Shitty About This Country" diary and made a list of everything that needs to be fixed and assembled a list of 200+ Bush-sponsored wrongs that need to be corrected.
I feel like the young bride who has married this powerful, strong, smart Harvard graduate who keeps impressing me with amazing, romantic gesture after romantic gesture. I want to run out to all of my girlfriends and say, "Oh my god. You'll never believe what he did next ... he's going to get another stimulus package for the middle class and wants to lift the ban on stem-cell research and then he made me a delish tuna-salad! I know, he's TOTALLY amazing, right?!?"
I keep waiting for us to have our first fight "Obama! How could you agree to maintain NAFTA under carefully-regulated restrictions?!? It's NAFTA or me, Barack!" and my mother tells me not to fall in love to quickly, but I just can't help myself. I don't know if he's just unilaterally wonderful or if things were just so incredibly shitty before that any sort of sensible, humane governance looks like FDR-style, ticker-tape worthy, sweeping reform! Maybe it's a mix of both.
Whatever the justification, that man won me over, big-time and he continues to win me over, time and time again. I sure do love that man of mine!
Slightly Gay for the President-Elect,
Mr.B
2 comments:
FISA.
We'll always have FISA.
I just have to note that closing GITMO has very little to do with our nation's policies on what we will do with suspected terrorists. Wherever the new prison is, there will go the American monsters WE are responsible for training and placing in charge of uncharged people ('cause they already have experience). WE make our own people become monsters, and then do almost nothing to help them re-integrate into society again. This will not change by altering the longitude and latitude of our headquarters.
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